Fwd: Re: [SF-LIT] Brave New World - the movie.

I am a Statistician. One false move and you're a Statistic.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Barry Haworth" <[email protected]>
Date: 20/06/2015 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] Brave New World - the movie.
To: "Dennis Fischer" <[email protected]>
Cc:

Yes, the 1980 version does sound like the one I saw in 1979, but if it is
what was it doing on Aussie TV nine months before its American release?
That is what puzzles me.

Guess I'll have to track down a copy and see if it looks familiar.

Barry

I am a Statistician. One false move and you're a Statistic.
On 19/06/2015 11:15 PM, "Dennis Fischer" <[email protected]> wrote:

> The 1980 miniseries version of BRAVE NEW WORLD starring Julie Cobb, Bud
> Cort, and Keir Dullea was first broadcast (in two parts) in the U.S. on
> March 7, 1980.  It is possible that it was released in Australia prior to
> its premiere American broadcast.
>
> Gamma Male <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188795/?ref_=tt_trv_qu>: We're
> not too stupid and we're not too bright, to be a Gamma is to be just right.
>
>
>
>   On Friday, June 19, 2015 5:57 AM, Barry Haworth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> I recently bought a copy of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (which  i have
> never read) and I have encountered a puzzle. Most of what I know of the
> book comes from having seen a movie version when I was in high school, and
> checking Wikipedia i found that the earliest movie version was released in
> 1980:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World_(1980_film)
> But there is a problem. This movie was made by NBC and released on 7th
> March 1980. The movie I saw was broadcast on Australian TV in two parts, on
> 10th and 12th July - but in 1979, not 1980. I am quite certain about those
> dates, having checked my diary from that year.
> So - does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Neither Wikipedia
> nor IMDB list a Brave New World movie before 1980. Did the movie have an an
> early release, or was there an earlier movie that IMDB doesn't know about?
> Barry
> I am a Statistician. One false move and you're a Statistic.
>
>
>